Member Church News: Marking the Reformation, youth forum and more

On the 13th October, the Reformed Church in Hungary and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary held a joint Synod meeting in Budapest on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the reformation. The Synod meeting concluded by adopting a Common Message.

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, about 80 Protestant and Catholic pilgrims made their way from Elbrinxen to Falkenhagen at the invitation of the Lippische Landeskirche and the archbishopric of Paderborn.

Scottish Faith Leaders’ Forum – The annual Interfaith Scotland event saw representatives from the Jewish, Sikh, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian communities gather in the Church of Scotland offices in Edinburgh. “In a time when there is much misunderstanding about the different faith families across the world, there has never been a more important time for people from all faith traditions, and none, to understand something about different faiths.”

The 120 young people from 35 countries gathered for the Council for World Mission’s first Global Youth Forum issued a statement stating their belief in the “full of life of all God’s creation.”